{"id":60037,"date":"2023-06-03T03:21:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=60037"},"modified":"2023-06-03T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T16:32:06","slug":"the-great-monster-magazines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/the-great-monster-magazines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Monster Magazines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on Archive.org to borrow, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/greatmonstermaga0000cott\/mode\/2up?q=Lovecraft\">The Great Monster Magazines: a critical study of the black and white publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s<\/a><\/em> (2008, McFarland). This has very variable Amazon reviews, with some enjoying it and others saying it&#8217;s yet another of McFarland&#8217;s many duff and over-priced titles. One even called it &#8220;Just a shill for Marvel Comics&#8221;&#8230; which is not necessarily a bad thing in my view. Though monster-mag collectors may disagree.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of marketing, it&#8217;s sad that today a magazine is very often just regarded as a vehicle for &#8220;marketing&#8221;. Something to be produced in a cliched dumbed-down, &#8216;template and boilerplate&#8217; form by a dull marketing department. A good well-curated and dynamic magazine can be so much more than that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on Archive.org to borrow, The Great Monster Magazines: a critical study of the black and white publications of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/the-great-monster-magazines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60037"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60047,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60037\/revisions\/60047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}